Atlantis

Words & Music:

Donovan Phillips Leitch

 

[spoken]

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The continent of Atlantis was an island which lay before the great flood;

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In the area we now call the Atlantic Ocean.

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So great an area of land, that from her western

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Shores, those beautiful sailors journeyed

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To the south and the North Americas with ease; in their ships with painted sails.

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To the east, Africa was a neighbor across a short strait of sea miles.

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The great Egyptian age is but a remnant of the Atlantian culture.

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The antedeluvian Kings colonised the world;

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All the Gods who play a part in the mythological dramas in all legends

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From all lands were from fair Atlantis.

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Knowing her fate, Altantis sent out ships to all corners of the earth.

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On board were the twelve, the poet, the physician, the farmer, the scientist,

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The magician, and the other so-called Gods of our legends.

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Tho' Gods they were and as the elders of our time choose to remain blind,

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let us rejoice and let us sing and dance and ring in the new.

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Hail Atlantis!

 

CHORUS:  [sung - repeat and out]

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Way down below the ocean, where I wanna be, she may be